A review by andrewgraphics
The Man With the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming

2.0

This final James Bond novel was ultimately a let down: Bond is brainwashed by the KGB to kill M, but Bond is knocked out just in time and M decides to send him off on an extremely difficult mission to get him back on track; all of this in the first chapter. The rest of the book takes place in Jamaica, where Bond is to track down and kill a contract assassin, who it turns out is involved in a KGB plot to destabilize the region. Throughout the book hardly a mention is made of Bond's time being brainwashed, how he is doing since he was "cured", and so on.

However, Fleming died in the middle of the process: the first draft of the book was done and edited, but he added a lot of detail to his books after that point; so I'll forgive him this.